{"id":40582,"date":"2018-11-16T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40582"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:53:07","slug":"ottawa-yemen-and-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40582","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian<\/a><\/h3>\n
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One has to admire the Canadian government\u2019s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom\u2019s international crimes, the Liberals have managed to convince some gullible folks they are challenging\u00a0Riyadh\u2019s rights abuses.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

By downplaying\u00a0Ottawa\u2019s support for violence in Yemen while amplifying Saudi reaction\u00a0to an\u00a0innocuous tweet\u00a0<\/a>the dominant media has wildly distorted the\u00a0Trudeau government\u2019s relationship to the monarchy.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

In a story headlined \u201cTrudeau says Canada has heard Turkish tape of Khashoggi murder\u201d,\u00a0Guardian\u00a0<\/i>diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour affirmed that \u201cCanada has<\/a>\u00a0taken a tough line on Saudi Arabia\u2019s human rights record for months.\u201d Hogwash. Justin Trudeau\u2019s government has okayed massive arms sales to the monarchy and largely ignored the Saudi\u2019s devastating war in Yemen, which has left\u00a0up to 80,000 dead<\/a>, millions hungry and sparked a terrible cholera epidemic.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

While Ottawa recently called for a ceasefire, the Liberals\u00a0only direct condemnation<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Saudi\u00a0bombing in Yemen was an October 2016 statement. It noted, \u201cthe Saudi-led<\/a>\u00a0coalition must move forward now on its commitment to investigate this incident\u201d after two airstrikes\u00a0killed over 150<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and wounded 500 during a funeral in Sana\u2019a.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

By contrast when the\u00a0first person\u00a0<\/a>was killed from a rocket launched into the Saudi capital seven months ago, Chrystia Freeland stated, \u201cCanada strongly<\/a>\u00a0condemns the ballistic missile attacks launched by Houthi rebels on Sunday, against four towns and cities in Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh\u2019s international airport. The deliberate targeting of civilians is unacceptable.\u201d In her release, Canada\u2019s foreign minister also accepted the monarchy\u2019s justification for waging war. \u201cThere is a real risk of escalation if these kinds of attacks by Houthi rebels continue and if Iran keeps supplying weapons to the Houthis\u201d, Freeland added.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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Ottawa, Yemen and Guardian One has to admire the Canadian government\u2019s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom\u2019s international crimes, the Liberals have managed to convince some gullible folks they are challenging\u00a0Riyadh\u2019s rights abuses. By downplaying\u00a0Ottawa\u2019s support for violence in Yemen while amplifying Saudi reaction\u00a0to an\u00a0innocuous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1319,106,11033,5493,11265,512,604,1246,701,23015,7937],"class_list":["post-40582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armaments","tag-canadian-government","tag-chrystia-freehand","tag-counterpunch","tag-liberal-government","tag-media","tag-ottawa","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen-canada","tag-yves-engler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40583,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}